Is New Year's Day a traditional festival?

New Year's Day is not a traditional festival.

In modern China, New Year's Day is the name of the Gregorian New Year, that is, 65438+ 10/. It is just a Gregorian calendar holiday, which belongs to the whole world and is also a national legal holiday (the legal holiday is 1). Traditional festivals in China are all related to the lunar calendar (including solar terms), so New Year's Day is definitely not a traditional festival in China.

Traditional festivals in China include New Year's Eve (New Year's Eve), Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), Tomb-Sweeping Day (April 5), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month), Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month) and Laba Festival (the eighth day of the eighth lunar month).

Custom of new year's day

1, UK

On the day before New Year's Day, every household must have wine in the bottle and meat in the cupboard. The British believe that if there is no wine and meat left over, they will be poor in the coming year. In addition, the custom of "digging wells" is also popular in Britain in the New Year. People strive to be the first person to draw water, thinking that the first person to draw water is a happy person and the water called is auspicious.

2. Belgium

In Belgium, on the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing in the countryside is to pay New Year greetings to livestock. People go to cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals and tell these creatures very seriously: "Happy New Year."

3. Germany

During German New Year's Day, every household should put a fir tree and a horizontal tree, and the leaves are covered with silk flower, which means that a hundred flowers blossom and spring is full. At midnight on New Year's Eve, just before the arrival of the New Year, they climbed into the chair. As soon as the bell rang, they jumped up from their chairs and threw a heavy object behind the back of the chair to show that they had abandoned the disaster and entered the new year.